The Italian Summer Festival Season: A tour of Italian festivals
On Sunday, 21 June, the Festival of Music will feature the first important concert with an audience after the COVID 19 emergency, besides being the beginning of the “Italian Summer Festival Season”, a suggestive tour of the principal Italian Festivals with a programme for 2020 announced to the World, thanks to the collaboration between the […]
Read moreInteractive dialogue on High Commissioner oral update on Libya
The Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado intervened today at the Interactive Dialogue on Libya during the 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council. He expressed concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Libya, including the impact of the ongoing conflict on civilians, attacks against human rights defenders […]
Read moreThe Human Rights Council resumes its 43rd session in Geneva
The Human Rights Council has resumed its 43rd session in Geneva on June 15, suspended in March due to the COVID-19emergency. The resumption of the work has a strong symbolic value as it conveys a clear message from the Human Rights Council to the International Community on the will, importance and moral duty to carry […]
Read moreMessage by Ambassador Cornado to the Italian Officials in the International Organisation in Geneva on the occasion of the Italian National Day
Ginevra, 2 giugno 2020 Cari funzionari italiani in servizio presso le Organizzazioni Internazionali a Ginevra, oggi, martedì 2 giugno, celebriamo la Festa della Repubblica. Quest’anno viviamo la ricorrenza in modo diverso rispetto al passato. Trascorreremola giornata con il pensiero rivolto all’Italia, duramente colpita dalla pandemia, ai 33.500 nostri concittadini uccisi dal virus e alle loro […]
Read moreMessage by Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado, Permanent Representative of Italy to the International Organisations in Geneva, on the occasion of the Italian National Day
Geneva 2 June 2020 Distinguished Permanent Representatives, distinguished Directors General to the International Organisations and High Commissioners for Human Rights and Refugees, on the occasion of the Italian National Day we celebrate today, I would like to convey to you the greetings of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. Italy is recovering […]
Read moreStatement by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella on the occasion of Europe Day
In a world famous statement on 9th may 1950, Robert Schuman, one of the fathers of Europe, envisaged an economically and – in prospect – politically united continent to overcome the heavy legacy of war and as the starting point for an ambitious process of integration between countries. The European union has gone through alternating […]
Read moreMinister Di Maio at the opening of the event “Europe: managing the COVID-19 Crisis” of the European University Institute
On the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, we meet again – albeit with the distance imposed by the current pandemic – to take stock of the State of the European Union. I want to thank the President of the Dehousse European University Institute and greet all the guests connected. The devastating impact of the […]
Read moreDeputy Minister Del Re: Covid19, Italy adheres to UN women’s rights appeal
Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re has joined, on behalf of Italy, the joint statement, promoted at the United Nations by South Africa and Sweden and signed by 59 countries, for the protection of women’s sexual and reproductive rights and the promotion of the gender perspective in response to Coronavirus pandemic. “Our country has always been […]
Read morePrime Minister Giuseppe Conte takes part to the launch of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Treatments to COVID-19
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte took part today to the launch of the Global Collaboration to accelerate the development, production and equitable global access to new COVID-19 essential health technologies. Watch the video of the launch event
Read moreCOVID-19: Vice-Minister Del Re speaks with ICRC president
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a telephone conversation with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer. On 26 March last, the ICRC, together with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), presented a plan to combat the COVID-19 emergency in countries and crisis areas, […]
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